If we’ve considered time, attentiveness, physical and emotional cues, jealousy, and communication, then the sixth and final clue brings all of these together into a broader pattern: the subtle shift in how someone organizes themselves around you. It’s not just what they say, or even what they do in isolated moments—it’s the way the very structure of their behavior begins to change in your presence. This can be seen in small but telling adjustments. They start prioritizing you over other commitments, even if they don’t admit it outright. They modify their routines, bending their schedule to align with yours. They become more deliberate in their appearance, more careful in their choice of words, more mindful of how they present themselves when you’re around. None of this may be spoken, but all of it points to an unacknowledged truth: you’ve become a gravitational center in their world, a reference point they now orient themselves around. Psychologically, this makes perfect sense. Human beings are creatures of habit. We tend to operate within stable routines because routines conserve energy and create predictability. But when someone starts altering those routines—stretching themselves, rearranging their patterns—it’s a costly signal. Costly in the sense that it requires effort, sacrifice, and conscious change. And costly signals are some of the most reliable indicators of genuine intent, because they’re difficult to fake over time. If someone consistently shifts their life in small but meaningful ways to accommodate you, it’s a strong clue that their hopes extend beyond casual interaction. Philosophically, this is where we touch the realm of meaning itself. We orient ourselves around what we care about. Just as planets revolve around the sun, our actions begin to revolve around what we value most. And when that orbit shifts—when a person begins to treat you as a center of gravity rather than just another passing star—it reveals something profound about the place you now hold in their hierarchy of importance. The philosopher Kierkegaard once wrote that what you love determines the essence of who you are. By that measure, when someone shifts their life around you, they’re not just rearranging their calendar—they’re revealing the deeper movements of their being. Now, it’s easy to overlook these changes because they’re often quiet. You don’t always see the decisions made behind the scenes: the choice to delay one thing in order to make time for you, the extra effort in remembering, preparing, presenting. But when you do notice, you realize that these small shifts are not small at all—they are silent declarations. So the sixth clue is this: pay attention to how someone’s life bends, even slightly, in your direction. People rarely announce that shift, but their choices betray it. It’s in the pattern of priorities, the effort of adjustment, the willingness to inconvenience themselves just a little for the sake of your presence. And the reflection I’ll leave you with is this: if someone has already begun to reorient their world around you, even in silence, then the truth has already been spoken—just not in words. The question is whether you’re willing to hear it.